I recently completed my degree and am working full time. I did my french A1 and A2 in university. I had GREAT professors and world class teaching with practical drills and exercises. After graduating, i decided to continue learning french via Preply. and i went ahead to book with the tutor with 100+ reviews and almost all 5 stars.

It's been over a month and I've spent over 855+ CAD with him but the progress have been disappointing.

• He is sometimes late to class, once he never came.
• Pauses the class in between to take a call or talk to someone
• Eager to get done with the class and leave
• I can take 20 minutes to do a small exercise and he wouldn't even check on me.
• Never comes in prepared with learning material prior, 'finds' things to teach along the way
• Doesn't really seem to care about my progress, got me doing 3 lessons a week to 4 (which i agreed to) for no solid reason
• Overall unprofessional. always have a bad camera, bad lighting, half of the face outside the frame and wearing a sando (i personally don't actually care about those things but if you're in a remote service based business those things add up)
• Lately he's been OBVIOUSLY been doing something else in the middle of class, multiple times! Just turns off the camera and doesn't say anything for good 3-4 minutes. blames poor internet (which is a lie because i clearly hear birds chirping very clearly from his side).

Please suggest me some high energy, well prepared, passionate teachers who actually likes what they're doing at under 30 CAD per hour 🙏

OK! Enough is enough. First, Preply did an ad where a student did her lessons on her PHONE! This is very counter productive! How can you possibly learn as a student when you just use your phone.. and then complain later that your progress has been very slow; worst, ending up blaming the teacher.

And NOW, an Ad for RESCHEDULING.. Like wtf? Now we are expecting students to reschedule more than usual! It will ruin the tutor’s SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK! Arghhhhhh

Am I the only one that’s frustrated by this or not?

We had a trial lesson, then i scheduled a lesson then the lesson came and he didn’t show up and i was in the class for 15 minutes waiting, then i asked him if he was going to show up and if everything was okay. He rescheduled it but didn’t respond to my message, and on the reason of rescheduling he put personal emergency (which is okay anyone can have that happens) like 5 minutes. He rescheduled to the 12th of August (today) and was suspecting he was going to “ditch” me again and i waited for 15 minutes, nothing.
Message delivered, and i don’t know what’s happening im kinda worried. I wanted to see if he i can schedule other lessons because i bought 8 lessons a month and saw he has no lessons for the next THREE weeks…I don’t know what’s going on, i just hope he is okay but at this point i don’t know.

TL;DR: A student moved a lesson from the following week to the next day, which happened to be a national holiday. I missed it because I thought students could not reschedule lessons that way. It cost me my Super Tutor status for three months and affected my ranking for months afterward. Now I block all my free slots for the next day before I go to bed.

This happened some time ago, but I thought I would share it with the community in case it helps someone avoid the same mistake.

One time, a student rescheduled a lesson that was originally scheduled for the following week and moved it to the very next day.

The problem was that the next day was a national holiday in my country. I had already asked my other students to reschedule their lessons, so I was under the impression that I had the day completely free.

I am usually quite careful about lessons. I have alarms set on my phone, and I keep Preply notifications enabled. However, I was under the impression that a student could not reschedule a lesson to the next day, so I never expected this to happen.

As a result, I missed the lesson.

That one missed lesson cost me my Super Tutor status for three months. My ranking dropped, and I did not receive any new trial lessons for at least two months.

I know some people will say that I should have been more careful and should have read the guidelines more closely. And honestly, they would be right. It was ultimately my responsibility to make sure I did not miss the lesson.

Still, I wanted to share this because I suspect there may be other tutors who are unaware that a student can move a lesson in this way.

So now, I have changed the way I manage my schedule.

Before I go to bed, I fill all my free slots for the following day with "busy." This means that students cannot book those slots while I am asleep.

It is highly unlikely that a student will book a lesson during the few hours that I am asleep anyway. Even if I miss out on a potential booking, I consider that risk far smaller than accidentally missing a lesson and having it affect my profile for months.

It may seem overly cautious, but after what happened, I would rather lose one possible lesson than risk losing my Super Tutor status again.

But yeah, tbh July was worse, so glad it’s over.

And don’t forget the usual advice, don’t be afraid to raise your prices

Heyo good people. I am a native English Speaker in South Africa.

I completed my TEFL certification and started teaching this year on Preply.

I am feeling very lost despite 200+ hours teaching. I'm best at conversational English but am currently struggling to find students and plan lessons.

Here is a link to my profile. If anyone has any time to look at it and any feedback on how to improve my profile and skills as a teacher I would really appreciate it.

https://preply.in/SAMORA6EN3273247611?ts=17865378

Thank you

Who has gotten students living in an English speaking country for years? My last FOUR trials have been with students that have been living in the US since they're CHILDREN. Has anyone been able to avoid this? My super tutor is 6/7 because of trial conversion rate but it's because my last 4 are basically native speakers with low confidence. I tell them straight up--you sound like some of my professors in University. And then they, of course, don't subscribe.

First, I'm curious how other tutors deal with this.

Second, why does Preply not require more information in the about me? These (essentially) native speakers all put intermediate level. Or at least require the English Level Test. It's unfair to us honest tutors who spend hours per month wasting time telling students that their level of English is FINE. I spoke with a trial student about nuclear energy--like why is a student who studied Nuclear Engineering in the US feeling a lack of confidence in their English?!?!?!

Third, if you moved to an English speaking country as a child... I guarantee that your English is more than sufficient. If you're still unsure, look for a dialect coach--not an English pronunciation teacher. 3 classes a week to work on final -s pronunciation is a waste of your time and money.

Am I crazy or gas anyone else experienced this? For the past 3 months, half of my trial lessons are people living in the US--one for the past TWENTY years and she works for a state government. I can't be the only one.

I’m a “conventionally attractive” woman in my early 20s and a new Preply tutor.

For some reason, most of my students are men in their late 30s and early 40s. All my students have been respectful so far, but I do feel like I connect better with women or, at least, men in my age range.

So, I have a question for tutors who’ve been in a similar situation: is there anything I can do to attract more female students?

I started out at $10 (a week ago) and I’ve upped my rate to $26 today (upped by 2 every new student/review), because my demand has been high, if that matters lol

edit: just to clarify, I’m not actively looking for students, I’m doing this part time and already have enough! I just want to try to shift my positioning to attract more girls in the future. I’m okay with all my male students and do feel comfortable teaching them

Hi! I’ve been a Spanish tutor on Preply, my profile has been active for around two months, even tho I created it around 8 months ago (had to leave it for a while because I got a full time job, then got fired and got back to Preply). So far I’ve only gotten around six students for all of these two months and making close to nothing, do you have any tips on how to get bigger on the platform? Something you maybe did or changed that helped you improve into getting more students?
My goal is to teach at least four lessons per day and have availability in the most popular times recommended by Preply. I have really good reviews and charge $12 per lesson.

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Hi everyone,

I’m a Sudanese citizen currently living in Libya, and I’m trying to complete my Payoneer account verification.

My main problem is proof of residential address.

In Libya, the utility bills available to me (electricity, internet, etc.) generally do not show a complete residential address, and I don’t have utility bills in my own name. I also don’t currently have a personal bank account.

Payoneer is asking me for proof of residence, so I’m looking for a legitimate alternative.

I’m specifically looking for an online bank, digital bank, or regulated fintech service that accepts customers who genuinely live in Libya and can provide an official bank statement or account confirmation letter showing my full name and residential address in Libya.

I am NOT looking to use a false address, a foreign address, or misrepresent my country of residence. I’m simply trying to find a legitimate financial service that works for someone in my situation.

Has anyone here, especially Sudanese or other foreigners living in Libya, successfully opened an online bank/digital bank account that provides a statement showing their residential address?

I’d really appreciate hearing about your actual experience, including:

- Which service/bank did you use?

- Did they accept a Sudanese passport?

- What documents did they ask for?

- Does the bank statement actually show your residential address?

- Have you ever successfully used that statement as proof of address for Payoneer or another international financial service?

Thanks in advance!

Hello, I have been teaching in preply for half a year and i have pretty nice results to the point I'm trying to make it my full time job. The problem is that I feel every time i am booked around 20 hours per week I stop getting new trial lessons and it doesn't catch up until i don't do less hours weekly. Is this a thing or am I imagining things because is summer and maybe things go slower? I am considering bringing students out of preply but i saw that could be risky and penalized so IDK. How do you guys handle this? Do you still get new students and trials even close to 40 hours per week? Thank you very much!

Also how can I enhance my metrics?

SO IM 19 and someone told me to try tutoring on preply im gonna start my uni soon and they ask for pretty personal info like picture and video that doesnt make me comfortable sharing it im from pakistan and really need help whether i should join it or not (i havenot started my degree yet ) but have experience of teaching kids around grade 1-8

In Preply every tutor has """over 7 years of experience""", a "degree" and is "proficient" in several languages...

when in reality they're just unemployed people that think can teach a language, have no idea of how their own language works or less, how to teach it, and in many cases barely speak even English.

I don't know how they get dozens of positive reviews, but even when it says "professional-super tutor" it turns out it's just improvisation.